My Topaz Sharpen AI vs Topaz Photo AI review is here... kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXt_zZKAkZOpcbQ.html

after so many so called "reviews" on internet, where nothing is really said, other than "if you prefer this, this is better and if you prefer that, that is better", FINALLY a true review that makes direct comparison and conclusion. Downloading those tools are not trivial - due to size. And time to evaluate properly. THANK you, to save my time!

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks for watching 👍 I plan to do a big group test one of these days with several different images across all the noise reduction software with download able images so people can judge for themselves which one is best as well as give my own opinion of course 👍

@cdmikelis

Жыл бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography and try also latest Neat Image. Is still like it for older JPEG stuff, where I can build or download proper profiles for given sensor and it really shines as classic. non-AI noise remover. So user ends up only with real data.

I bought Photo AI. While I am pleased that face recovery is, it's in my experience nowhere near their marketing claims, it's still a very useful tool and can be quite amazing. I am working on restoration of ~ 100 year 120 negs that my father shot. My process? Photographing the negs on a good LED Lightbox with a GH5 ii. I use this for my own 35 mm and 16 mm movie film (stills only) both reversal and neg. Anyway the thing is it can't match the rest of the image to the face processing so if you use it to its full potential the photo will look obviously unnatural. I always copy the layer that is processed and end up with a blend old and new. So while I am happy to have the tool I want more, much more. But I am doing this now. In a few years and after inevitable improvement, I may revisit some the images.

@kieranhayesphotography

2 ай бұрын

Oh this is only getting better and better, right now face recovery features are good but not great yet. What's coming fdown the orad I think is going to be truly frightening and exciting at the same time. Good luck with the restoration work.

Thank you. Very good comparison. This backs up my experience with those apps as well. Hoenstly, I'm not using Photo AI yet. I much prefer heading straight to quality apps (Denoise AI, Sharpen AI and Gigapixel AI) as they give me better quality output. Less convenient than Photo AI? Hell, yeah. But the output is what counts for me. I'm checking out each release of Photo AI and it still cannot replace individual Topaz products. Again, my personal view on it.

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Good to hear you also found the same thing... I found it all a bit confusing recently as several people were saying Photo AI was a good bit better. When I tried this both apps were fully up to date on this review and as you have also found out Photo AI just couldn't live up to Gigapixel AI on its own. Maybe in the next version or two they might get it right, fingers crossed.

@gbdr_ps_fan8656

Жыл бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography Comments are turned off under your other video evaluating Super Sharp AI. Did you manage to compare it to Topaz Sharpen AI perhaps? thanks

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks for the heads up about comments being disabled on the SuperSharp AI video that was an accident :-) I have them enabled now... I honestly haven't had time just yet but it is seriously on my to do list which AI will get to next week. I have two commercial shoots this week and a good bit of editing to do and several new bits of software have landed on my desk in the last few days so I think I need three of me atm to get through it all :-) I will get to it though, I plan to do a group test with SuperSharp AI, Tack Sharp AI and Sharpening AI and see which one comes out on top with a few different photos. Also SuperSharp AI for windows was missing Defocus and Universal sharpening adjustments when it launched. They were available for Mac though.

Excellent video, thanks. As a newbie just doing upscaling for old family photos, is there any reason I should buy Photo AI over just Gigapixel standalone? Think you just saved me $100, but want to be sure.

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Photo AI also reduces noise and sharpens the image if you want it too, so if it's only for resizing then Gigapixel AI does a really good job and Photo AI is no better it there. The Image Quality bundle includes Gigapixel AI, Sharpen AI, Denoise AI and you also get Photo AI in it too if you want to go down that route 👍

🧙🏻‍♂ I've found if you use DeNoise & Gigapixel together, some textures look weird & over-sharpened. It's best to do two upscales, one with DeNoise & one with no DeNoise, then mask/blend the two where it looks best. Does Photo AI get rid of that problem?

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried using DeNoise AI first then Sharpen AI if needed and finishing with Gigapixel AI? If using DeNoise AI first you could use masking to reduce the DeNoise AI effect on the background. I have found Photo AI to give some very cartoonist results at times especially with very low resolution files and a second app like DeNoise being used as well. That could just be me though. It's great though if it's a very simple job.

Very informative and helpful video... thanks! May I ask what kind of machine you are running? My biggest problem with the Topaz AI apps is the processing time on my hardware; by comparison, yours is lightning fast!

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the feedback 👍. I am using a pc I built myself about 3 years ago. As I do a lot of editing work it's a fairly serious bit of kit. It has a core I9 9900k cpu that I have overclocked to 5.2ghz on all 8 cores, pnly possible woth a custom loop, it's running on am M.2 ssd with 64gb of ram and has an RTX 3080ti GPU. It's not the fastest pc by modern standards, upgrade the cpu next year to bring it up to modern specs. Hope that helps 👍

@banxious

11 ай бұрын

Many thanks... that's a hardcore system! Nice work.

You can download the edited files on my website blog post via the link below... www.landscapephotographyireland.com/topaz-gigapixel-ai-vs-topaz-photo-ai-review/

Thank yuo for the detailed review. The same review showing human face portraits - both photographic and illustration/AI art would be lovely, if you are interested in doing it.

@kieranhayesphotography

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Tatyana, I had planned on doing that but it would appear that Gigapixel AI is no longer getting the saem amount of input as Photo AI is getting and seems to have been replaced now by it. With regular updates it is a lot closer to Gigiapixel AI now then when I recorded that video.

@TatyanaValdaBelindaHill

7 ай бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography Thank you for saying, Kieran. I just bought Gigapixel and am honestly not as impressed as I expected I would be for improving portraits (photographs and illustrations). So I have been confused. I got it for bulk download from Midjourney anyway, so still very useful... Right from the off they have been pushing Photo AI like mad on me!

@kieranhayesphotography

7 ай бұрын

It all depends on how critical you are I suppose. Personally I really don't like facial recover in any software as of yet. You can get soem ok images anfd it is great for very old photographs but it cetainly isn't great. Photo AI is no better, or should I say it wasn't when I last quickly comparred them a few months back.

@TatyanaValdaBelindaHill

7 ай бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography That's good to know about facial recovery. I have found it looks very bad on all the few images I tried so far and was very confused... So that's good to know... And good to know Photo AI (at least recent versions) are no better. Because instantly I had a bit of buyer's regret of whether or not I should have purchased Photo AI. You are the second more experienced user who has said the same thing. So this puts my mind at rest. I'll probably get DeNoise AI and Sharpen separately

@kieranhayesphotography

7 ай бұрын

I suppose it's still early days for this technology and no doubt soon enough it will be a lot better.

Very good video. Hard to see diffrence on mobile phone! I think i need something like your edit computer, mine struggles...but will look on it later. Cheers. And love the commentary

@kieranhayesphotography

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the feedback. A good computer certainly does make the job easier alright, saves me a load of time every week. Thanks again.

I use both regularly depending on the task at hand; along with DeNoise and Sharpen AI. In most cases, if I am not trying to be extremely extreme? Photo AI will suffice. But when it comes to a large upscaling - I am talking say a 36 x 36 inch, 16 bit, one to one scan of a painting at 300 DPI to 48 x 48 inches? I find I must resort to Gigapixel as Photo AI - with my older computer being probably the reason - crashes after getting almost there but not quite! Plus, Photo AI smooths things out to the point of looking plastic. I also must use an older version of Gigapixel - 6.2.0 from 2021- which with my computer uses the CPU and GPU more efficiently, whereas the later versions always crashed for me. They barely use the GPU as indicated by Task Manager. I realize few people do this kind of upsizing. Basically, it takes testing to see what yields what is best for my (or your) purposes - as I am sure most people find with any of the many - truly amazing - programs we have out there now for our use. It's not a "one size fits all" thing. Thank you for this thorough analysis.

@kieranhayesphotography

5 ай бұрын

Hi Erik, Yes, that's exactly it. You need to play with the settings a bit to get it as good as possible and while Photo AI is an amazing all round app it does have its slight drawbacks. I always end out going back to the individual apps but I know I am a bit extreme that way 😀. Thanks for watching and for the feedback and have a fantastic weekend.

@erik1836

5 ай бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography I am sure that as time goes by - considering how much effort they have obviously been putting into Photo AI since its inception the goal is to make it equal to the three standalone products DeNoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel, which I would aim for too if I were them; given most people I suppose don't want to be bothered with fine-tuning an image. But, what's that old saying, "Jack of all trades but master of none."? Yet, for most ordinary processing where we are not trying to meet the types of criteria I would rise to the occasion to meet - if I were having someone like yourself reviewing my handiwork! - such time and attention to detail is not necessary. Have wonderful weekend!

was wondering if it was a cork accent then saw the website, so they can both pretty much do the same thing then. cool

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

A good thick West Cork accent 😉 they are both very similar alright with Gigapixel AI just being that bit better still.

@edmondopowell

Жыл бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography I’m east cork you sounded near enough to the city one lol cool what’s the difference between Luminar neo and pro

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean between the subscription and outright purchase option or another program? Nearly all software has gone subscription based now in some shape anyway. For what you get the Neo Subscription model is amazing with all the extensions now. The one thing with most of this software is you need a fairly good machine to run it.

@edmondopowell

Жыл бұрын

@@kieranhayesphotography ya I used neo for bout a month it’s good but wasn’t really enough presets in it to see the whole lot of it. Then saw pro and wondered if that were any better. Machine brand new issues I had with neo was it kept saving each photo I did something on and it shouldn’t happen but it wasn’t opening up either on ps as a plug-in

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

They have added a load of extensions now for Neo sharpening upscaling and noise reduction which are really good now. The issues you had are pretty weird tbh I haven't heard of that before but there have been several updates and bug fixes over the last couple of months and it just keeps getting better and better. Now in saying all that I use Adobe mainly myself as their tool list for commercial work is incredibly hard to beat. I also have DXO Labs Photolabs 6 and On1 PhotoRaw 2023 on my workstation so at the best of times I am torn between them all :-) Each of them have their own advantages but Neo is right up there with the best of them now and it just keeps getting better with loads of new stuff on the way for 2023 that I can't talk about as of yet :-)

they use the same engine ... thanks

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

It's similar but not the same, the results are slightly different but I am sure Photo AI will improve over time.

wow, this surprised me.. for context, i have used gigapixel 4.1 before.thats what i used, thats what i know and i came here having bias on gigapixel. also, all most comments seems to be in favor of gigapixel, including @kieran himself. but it surprised me, though gigapixel has the "sharper" results, photo for me has the more realistically upscaled results. for another context, i have used some AI image generators so i am acustomed to their results. gigapixel do look like an image from an AI image generator. yes, its sharper, but it comes off as a little more fake looking. and while photo is softer(hence less details etc) it comes more to me like a real photograph upscaled and restored. i can see why more pixel-peeper users say gigapixel is better. but i could also see why others say that photo is fine and useable. so it really boils down to personal preference and where you would use it i guess... for me its still is a toss coin.. that bridge between photo and lightroom though sounds sweet....

@kieranhayesphotography

9 ай бұрын

Hi Paulo, the crazy thing about photography is we all see things differently and what's not right for one is for another. Trust me you find that out when you post reviews on KZread :-) Personally, I find Gigaspixel to still be a nice bit better than Photo AI and while Photo is faster if you need to do a lot to an image, my preference out of the two would still be Gigapixel.

so basically your best having both

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

I suppose it all depends how often you need to use it. If it's only very occasionally then Gigapixel AI would do perfectly and give slightly better results.

So go with gigapixel

@kieranhayesphotography

7 ай бұрын

Unless you need sharpening and Denise then Gigapixel AI is every bit as good as Topaz Photo AI in my experience. In saying that Photo AI has been updated since I did this review so they are a good bit closer now.

Very unclear voice. Change microphone or speak slower.

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the input, it's not the mic it's probably my thick West Cork accent and there is no changing that. I was speaking slower than I normally would so again no changing that either. Anyway thanks for the feedback, have a great weekend and I hope you find a reviewer with a clearer voice 👍

@vivynrekha5680

Жыл бұрын

​@kieranhayesphotography u can try eq'ing your voice in the audio tab in premier or final cut to reduce the bass it should help a lot your voice is just deep and bassy thats why people find it hard to understand a bit, nice content keep it up 👍🏻

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

@vivynrekha5680 thank you, I will drop the bass a bit and see if it helps. I didn't drop it all a long as it just sounds like me 🙃 I thought it was my accent that was the issue so thank you 👍

@mudpill7509

Жыл бұрын

I don't know what they are on about, I have zero problems understanding anything and I'm not even from the UK.

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

@mudpill7509 good to hear it's not everyone :-)

I don't see the point in using these apps, if you have a crappy blurry image with no detail, delete it an do better next time, not AI it into a fake image.

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

Hi Vince, I can see your viewpoint but this is only about enlarging your photographs so for people with old mobile phone shots of loved ones or moments past or drone shots or the time you have the wrong lens on your camera and something magical happens off in the distance. I personally don't use these apps for upscaling my own photography but I do use them reasonably often for restoring old photographs for clients and for mobile phone shots and for some old 12mp slightly cropped drone shots. There are exclusion zones around lighthouses so you often times can't get that close to them with a drone so a bit of upscaling would come in handy there then too. I totally agree with you though that you should always get it right in camera, have a great weekend.

@reference2592

Жыл бұрын

🙄 Oh gee. What a good idea.

@elementkid88

Жыл бұрын

Vince; I've been a flat-out pro photographer for 36 years and I wouldn't be without these apps. I get 95% of my pix across a range of disciplines (and often in difficult circumstances) bang on, but if there's a good one or an important one amongst the 5% that I can save or pull back from unusable to usable then I'm going to have no hesitation doing just that. It's not a 'fake image' at all it's an improvement/enhancement in just the same way that any photoshop (etc) edit is an improvement/enhancement to achieve a better final result. And with pro work, there is no 'next time.'

@VinceMaidens

Жыл бұрын

@@elementkid88 OK I hear you, 36 years a pro...but what did you do before these apps? I have zero issue with noise removal at all, the part i have a problem with is the fixing a blurry image. The software is reconstructing what it assumes was the image you saw, and in no way will it be, it will be altered to not be your image. Sorry you can argue it all you like but I've seen it, it's never the same. So I appreciate you supporting it, but it's bad for photography. People will not care if they get it right, I've seen it with a lot of beginner photographers.

@rhedd5911

Жыл бұрын

@@VinceMaidens You’re making the VERY self-centered assumption that these programs are only used to fix crappy photography. There are plenty of ways to generate images that aren’t a camera, you know. When you’ve done a digital painting as big as it’ll ever need to be on a monitor, and then it suddenly needs to be professionally printed, you’ll be happy to have them. When you’ve done a texture for a 3D model years ago and now it needs updated to a modern resolution, you’ll be happy to have them. I know you’re invested in being a snob about this, but really, there are endless applications for these programs that aren’t even related to photography, let alone limited to fixing incompetence.

On the goose Photo is WAY better on the bird man. The artifacts in the background are are simple 2 sec fix in Photoshop. The bird detail is much better and more realistic. Look at the light great area of the wing for example. So on that count your judgement is off. Ohoto is for quick batch runs and for that it does an amazing job.

@kieranhayesphotography

Жыл бұрын

That's why I added the high resolution shots so people can d9wnload them and judge for themselves 👍 On removing the artifacts, yes Photoshop will do that but not everyone has photoshop so it was only fair to mention it, at the end of the day you shouldn't need to do that though. Yes, Photo AI is for fast editing and it does a very good job at that, always room for improvement though and for us all I hope that happens.